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Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales
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<h3>Description</h3>


<p>The <code>quine</code> data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns.
Children from Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by
Culture, Age, Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from
school in a particular school year was recorded.
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
quine
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<h3>Format</h3>


<p>This data frame contains the following columns:
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<dt><code>Eth</code></dt><dd>
<p>ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, (<code>"A"</code> or <code>"N"</code>).
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Sex</code></dt><dd>
<p>sex: factor with levels (<code>"F"</code> or <code>"M"</code>).
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</dd>
<dt><code>Age</code></dt><dd>
<p>age group: Primary (<code>"F0"</code>), or forms <code>"F1,"</code>
<code>"F2"</code> or <code>"F3"</code>.
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</dd>
<dt><code>Lrn</code></dt><dd>
<p>learner status: factor with levels Average or Slow learner, (<code>"AL"</code> or
<code>"SL"</code>).
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</dd>
<dt><code>Days</code></dt><dd>
<p>days absent from school in the year.
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</dd>
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<h3>Source</h3>


<p>S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced cross
classifications (with discussion).
<EM>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A</EM> <B>141</B>, 195&ndash;223.
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002)
<EM>Modern Applied Statistics with S.</EM> Fourth edition.  Springer.
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